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stun

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1. stun - Noun

2. stun - Verb

Meaning

To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.

To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Stun settings are for people who can't commit. J. Michael Straczynski

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. Caroline Knapp

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks-not stun guns and bulletproof vests. Ally Carter

If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face. Kristin Cashore

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture. Stephen Hunter

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